[mythtv-users] Splitting movies from TV series

[John Finlay]

On 11/19/2013 9:18 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi
>
> For years I had a single videos folder, containing subfolders like
> Actions, Romance, Family, Cartoons and ... TV
>
> And the videos storage group was linked to that single folder.
>
> the actual directory structure actually being:
> /data/videos
> /data/recordings
> /data/images
> /data/music
> /data/photos
>
> This suited me fine.
>
> I want to change it however so the actual directory structure is like so:
> /data/videos/movies
> /data/videos/TV
> /data/videos/recordings
> /data/images
> /data/music
> /data/photos
>
> (reason for this is that I'm migrating all my files to a ZFS NAS
> server which will be mounted via NFS)
>
> So when I go into the mythvideo I get to choose immediately between
> movies and TV
>
> So I modified the videos storage group so it would have a link to
> /data/videos/movies and to /data/videos/TV
>
> Problem with this setup is that the content of TV and movies are
> merged into a single content, which makes it very impractical to
> navigate.
>
> Obviously, I could have changed my SG to point to /data/videos itself;
> but then it shows the "recording" folder which I don't want to see
> there.
>
> So is there a way to have the directory structure describe above, that
> will present me separately the TV and movie folder?
>
> Thanks
> JY
How about:

/data/videos/videos/movies
/data/videos/videos/TV

with the SG pointing to /data/videos/videos